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Dante and Chaucer's Concepts of Evil, 2005.
This paper compares the conception of evil in Dante Aligheir 's "The Divine Comedy" ("Commedia") and Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales".
2,545 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 77.95
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This paper explains that Dante's view of evil is that it acts as a catastrophic impediment toward man's attainment of the divine; whereas, Chaucer identifies the human manifestations of evil as ironic. The author points out that "The Divine Comedy" is an epic poem in which the author, Dante, takes a visionary journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise to learn about the true nature of evil; however, although they likely shared a similar cosmogony, Chaucer's portrayal of evil in "The Canterbury Tales" is much different than Dante's resulting in "The Canterbury Tales" being an extremely entertaining work written for a popular audience. The paper relates that the difference in the conception of evil between these books lies less in the religious background of their authors then in the author's intention for writing the book.
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"Dante conceived of Hell as a cone shaped hole, terraced into seven concentric rings. The uppermost level, Limbus, actually is not a Hell at all, but merely an abode for the good people born into the culture of Christianity but who had never been baptized, as well as those born before the time of Christ. Below Limbus, the rings of Hell yawn deeper and deeper, and the torments grow more and more severe, ending at the bottom with a frozen lake which is the abode of Satan himself. Each different type of sin merits its own ring, hence the seven deadly sins. The unfortunate inhabitants of each ring and section of Hell receive a different punishment, cleverly designed to reflect the spirit of the crime. Dante does not claim that the individuals of whom he speaks with in each section were designated as permanent "spokespeople" of that ring; he gives the impression he just initiated the conversation with them because either he or Virgil recognized them, and their story would be familiar enough to Dante's readership to provide a pertinent lesson."
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Dante and Chaucer On Good and Evil, 1995.
Compares portrayals of innocence and guilt in the "Hell" section of "Divine Comedy" (Dante) and "Canterbury Tales" (Chaucer). Examines settings, purposes and views of humanity.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 47.95
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"This study will explore the themes of innocence and guilt in the "Hell" section from Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The study will focus on the uses each author makes of urban and more natural settings to convey messages about innocence and guilt. While both Dante and Chaucer make use of this motif in making their thematic points, a great difference exists between them. Chaucer's primary purpose is to present a humorous and compassionate portrayal of human existence---including innocence and guilt, or goodness and evil---while Dante's essential purpose is moral and instructional.
Chaucer uses urban and country references in his portrayal of the human condition as a means of drawing a contrast between the goodness and evil of humankind. Again, we must keep in mind that Chaucer uses setting to reveal truths about humanity from an ..."
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Evil is as Evil Does, 2002.
A look at David Hume's philosophy on evil.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper presents a detailed look at David Hume's ideas on evil. The writer of this paper takes the reader on an exploratory journey through the philosophy of Hume focusing on his beliefs when it came to the concept of evilness.
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Hear No Evil, See No Evil, 2004.
A look at the controversial issue of children using the Internet.
1,447 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper discusses the question of censorship in relation to the use of Internet by children. The writer explains that the responsibility lies both on the parents and the government in implementing some sort of control, but also argues that inappropriate behavior stems not only from this source. The writer concludes that education is the key factor in achieving a balanced use of the Internet.
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"A teenaged gunman opens fire in a Colorado school. A twelve-year-old boy rapes and kills a six-year-old. Yet another boy kills a toddler just for the ?fun? of it. These are but a few of the recent headlines that paint a shocking picture of modern day society. We are a culture in turmoil; a culture beset by depravity and violence. It is hard enough to raise a child today without reading stories such as these, but harder still when, in the name of entertainment; our children and we are bombarded with such images on a daily basis. For who can turn on a television or go to a movie without witnessing some violent and offensive scene? Those who should be setting good examples only encourage the trend toward greater disregard for ethical standards. Authority figures behave inappropriately, heroes tote guns, rock stars sing of shootings and gang violence ? and media moguls cry freedom of speech when confronted with the consequences. Luckily, today?s children can turn to the computer for alternate sources of entertainment and inspiration."
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Dante?s ?Inferno?: The Teacher and The Student, 2002.
This paper presents a detailed examination of the relationship between Dante and Virgil in Dante?s "Inferno".
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 24.95
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The paper states that in Dante?s "Inferno" the personality characteristics of Dante and Virgil and their relationship is extremely important to the context of the story. The writer uses examples and character analysis to present this relationship.
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"Dante is not a gifted man intellectually. He is a bit of a bumbling guy who seems to need a lot of supervision and guidance to get through life. He was however, a firm spiritual believer who followed his heart when it comes time to believe in Virgil."
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"The Divine Comedy" - Dante Alighieri's "Inferno", 2007.
A discussion of the epic poem "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri, focusing on canto III of Dante's "Inferno".
1,192 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper examines the scholars and the de-contextualization of Dante's "Inferno" - with special emphasis upon canto III. The paper summarizes the scene when a fearful Dante first enters Hell and discusses its significance in terms of understanding Dante and his world. The paper also looks at how intellectuals view Dante's "Inferno". The writer believes that the work stands out as a classic example of the medieval allegory play taken to new rhetorical heights. The writer concludes that it is also an example of how even the simplest works, if powerfully wrought, can spark wide discussion among academics who seek out meanings unimagined by the author.
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"Ultimately, the canto, like the rest of the cantica, is a potential mirror into the world in which Dante Alighieri lived as well as a mirror into his own inner turmoil as a devout Christian seeking a purpose to his life as well as answers to questions that presumably many devout Christians were asking in the fourteenth century. To start with, the canto (in the original Italian, anyway) was written in the demanding terza rima rhyme pattern (Scott para.2) and, even in English translations, the text can be difficult to follow as Dante tries to bend the language into shapes and forms to which it does not adhere willingly."
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"The Inferno of Dante", 2002.
Tracing the relationship of Dante and Virgil based on Robert Pinsky's translation, "The Inferno of Dante".
751 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 26.95
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This paper examines the relationship between Dante and Virgil as depicted in Pinsky's translation. Their relationship throughout poem is filled with symbolism. The epic poem is about Dante who journeys through the underworld and Virgil, the Roman poet, serves as his guide. The paper shows how Virgil symbolizes knowledge and safety to Dante, who is at times uncertain and timid about traversing such treacherous terrain.
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"Robert Pinsky is a distinguished poet and translator of "The Inferno of Dante" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994). The "Inferno" -- which is the first part of Dante's "Divina Commedia" -- remains a popular and compelling poem for modern readers; there have been at least fifty English versions of the "Inferno" in this century alone. Of course, any translator must rely on previous translations and commentators in undertaking such an ambitious task, and Pinsky has said that he depended largely on Charles Singleton's scholarly, painstakingly literal prose translation (1970), and on the best-known nineteenth-century American verse translation, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). "
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Dante's "Inferno", 2002.
This paper discusses and analyzes "Inferno," by Alighieri Dante.
655 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the book "Inferno," by Alighieri Dante. Specifically, it describes two characters, Beatrice and Lucifer. Beatrice and Lucifer could not be farther apart in this poem. They represent good and evil, savior versus destroyer, and they are both present in the poem in order to illustrate the ultimate theme of good versus evil, and Dante's ultimate salvation.
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"The "Inferno" is the first of three books that make up Dante's classical work "The Divine Comedy." The "Inferno" follows Dante's journey through Hell on his route to finding God. He begins at the bottom in sin, and must fight his way to the top, where lovely Beatrice awaits him in Paradise."
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A. Dante's "Inferno", 2006.
This paper discusses the concepts of crime and punishment as presented in Dante's "Inferno".
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This paper explains that, in the "Inferno", Dante states that people are evil and cannot change and that the punishment people receive is fitting to their crime. The author disagrees with Dante and believes that punishing people in a way that is fitting to the crime will only work to reinforce the kind of behavior that led to the crime and will lead to people being defined by their crimes thus reinforcing the idea that people cannot change. The paper stresses that a system, such as Dante's, where the punishment fits the crime does nothing to make the person be responsible for their own actions.
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Crime and Punishment in Dante's Era
Crime and Punishment Today
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"In the Inferno, Dante travels through the ten levels of hell. In each level, he sees people that have been guilty of certain crimes. In each case, the people are being punished in a way that is fitting to their crime. The people who sinned via wrath are seen to be attacking each other. The thieves have been turned into snakes. The people who committed suicide have to spend their lives as trees. This suggests that people do not change. In this way, a person who does wrong is seen as evil with this not able to be changes. With this belief, there is no suggestion that people can learn from their mistakes and become better people. The punishments describe also suggest that people will continue to act as they did on earth if they are given freedom."
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Dante's "Inferno", 2004.
A review of Cantos Five and Thirteen from Dante's "Inferno".
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This paper details two cantos from the tale of Dante's "Inferno" and attempts to derive how accomplished a writer Dante actually was because of his use of imagination and reality through a review of Cantos Five and Thirteen. It assesses Dante's skill in telling his story by tying together his vivid imagination with his ability to describe people realistically. It shows how, in Dante?s hell, the sins of the individual souls describe both how the individuals lived their lives before death and how they will spend eternity after death and how Dante?s imagination mixed with reality made his tormented characters believable and opened a window into their lives.
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"Dante had a definite interplay between reality and imagination. For example, one would think that with the many tortures and the constant torment, these levels of hell would reek horrendously. Although not from either Canto five or thirteen, this example demonstrates how the author combined real and imagined to describe the smell of hell and his imagination makes it very real. ?Dante arrives at the verge of a rocky precipice which encloses the seventh circle, where he sees the sepulchre of Anastasius the heretic; behind the lid of which pausing a little, to make himself capable by degrees of enduring the fetid smell that steamed upward from the abyss, he is instructed by Virgil concerning the manner in which the three following circles are disposed, and what description of sinners is punished in each.? (DANTE) Dante captures the stench precisely."
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Dante and Catholicism, 2007.
This paper examines the treatment of the Catholic faith in Dante's work.
1,642 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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In this article, the writer studies the writings of Dante Alighieri and notes that he makes comment of the current political and religious world in which he lived. The writer points out that in so doing, Dante created a likely unintended controversy, with regard to the way in which things were done in the church and politics. Further, the writer notes that Dante disagreed with this in many ways, but attempted to pacify this controversy through his works, especially with his 'Inferno'. The writer concludes that through Dante's inclusion of many ideals and standards of his faith, some have seen his works as spiritual and worthy quests, yet his emphasis on self-determination and self-judgment was contrary to the validity of the central authority of the Catholic faith, regardless of his desire to embrace it.
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"Dante, traced his own personal economic and political trials through his experiences in a system, not unlike that described by his Catholic faith, and yet in so doing he must have known that he would challenge the Catholic ideal of centralized authority and power. Though some say his intention was to make sense of his problems and his seeking of salvation through this exercise with no intention of harming his faith or its standards but he hesitated in his debates, as if uncertain that he held any or all of the answers he was seeking in his pilgrimage of the mind."
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Twelve-Step Program to Escaping Dante?s Hell, 2002.
A comparison of the hell described in Dante's "The Inferno" to the twelve-step program required by an alcoholic to pass by AA.
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Dante?s "The Inferno" paints an incredibly vivid picture of what Hell is like. The journey Dante undertakes in order to progress pass his ?lost? stage and escape Hell can be likened to the 12-Step Program a recovering alcoholic must complete in order to finally escape from the clutches of drinking to excess. This paper explores Dante?s journey through the perspective of this 12-Step Program. By going through each step, one can witness the introspective and emotional self-examination Dante goes through, with a little help from his support group, in order to get out of Hell.
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"The first step that every recovering alcoholic must take involves the process of admitting his or her problem. Alcoholics must acknowledge that they are helpless when battling their addiction and they must admit that this addiction to drink has wreaked havoc on their lives to the point where they have lost control (Alcoholic Anonymous, 1955, 59). Dante?s predicament is no different to that of an alcoholic struggling to regain control over his or her life. At the beginning of the poem, Dante is portrayed as having gotten lost on the path of life and trying to get back on the right path. Using imagery, Dante recalls that ?in the middle of his life, he [finds] himself lost in a dark forest, having lost the right path while half asleep.? "
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Dante's "Purgatoria", 2002.
An explanation of the theology of Dante's "Purgatoria" or purgery.
2,224 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 69.95
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This paper anlyzes Dantes "Purgatorio". Dante?s Divine Comedy depicts three possibilities of life after death: Inferno, or Hell, where the unsaved spend eternity, Purgatorio or Purgery, where the saved who still have some sins to account for go, and finally Paradiso, or Paradise, the final destiny of the faithful. The Canto?s of each possibility are told through the viewpoint of Dante and Virgil, who make the journey together. The discussion that follows is focused on the insights and meaning derived from the two artists? journey through Purgatorio.
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"The main, spiritual meaning of Purgatorio focuses on the fact that it is a transitory state between the death of the body and the spirit?s ascendance to heaven. In contrast to Inferno, the souls doing penance here have the hope of its end and of their final admission into paradise. The atmosphere in this place also substantiates the feeling of hope. The souls here are praising and worshiping God. The joyous atmosphere is further substantiated by the four holy stars that Dante sees when entering Purgatory. These symbolize virtues rather than sins."
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Dante?s "Inferno", 2006.
An analysis of hell, purgatory and paradise as seen in Dante's "Inferno".
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The paper states that the story line of the "Inferno", simply stated, is Dante's journey through hell. The paper explains that Dante is lost physically and spiritually because he was not paying attention to where he was going. The writer summarizes Dante's journey through hell. In conclusion, the writer states that the reader watches the character-narrator change from a somewhat naive observer-participant to an older, wiser narrator who offers insight and meaning.
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"Dante's vision is of a journey in the afterlife through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise where he encounters the souls of the great men of the past and discusses with them the most important themes of humanity: philosophy, religion and morality, politics and culture. Dante's voyage, guided by Virgil (human reason), and Beatrice (human reason enlightened by revelation), is also the story of his personal redemption as well as a cry for the salvation of humanity. Virgil was a guide through the spirit world. Virgil stands for human reason. Virgil becomes in the Inferno the symbol of human reason. Virgil tells Dante that he is there because Heaven wanted him there and that he can take Dante only part of the way. He can't enter Heaven or see God because he was a pagan. Someone "more worthy" will take Dante to God. It is Beatrice who will do this, as she has sent Virgil to help Dante find his way to Heaven and to her. She doesn't appear directly in the Inferno, but is his guide through Heaven and to God."
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Dante and Jesus Compared, 2005.
Comparison/contrast of the journeys of Dante in his "The Divine Comedy" and Jesus from the "Gospel of John."
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Dante's "The Divine Comedy" and the "Gospel of John" are two texts that emphasize the way to heaven. This paper shows how Dante takes us on an imaginary journey through hell, which is filled with vivid images and characters. These images are tools that Dante is using to convince us that hell is not a place that we want to end up--especially forever. The paper also shows how the "Gospel of John" is persuading us to turn to heaven by recognizing who Jesus is. According to John, this is the only way that mankind can reach heaven.
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"John was a disciple of Jesus and the brother of James. Critics believe that John was the youngest son of Zebedee. John probably grew up like most Jewish children and when he grew up, he "followed the occupation of a fisherman on the lake of Galilee" (Bryant 349). Bryant maintains that the disciple John was heavily influenced by John the Baptist, who began his public ministry in Judea. When the disciple John heard John the Baptist say, "Behold the Lamb of God," (349), he immediately became a disciple and "ranked among his followers" (349). After this occasion, John and his brother returned to fishing until Jesus called them. After this calling, John and James "'left all and permanently attached themselves to the company" (349) of Jesus. John became one of the innermost circle and he was a disciple whom Jesus loved. John and Peter were the only two that followed Jesus after Judas' betrayal. The other disciples fled in fear. At Jesus' trial, John was the disciple that followed Jesus into the council chamber and the praetorium. John was also present when Jesus was crucified. In addition, after the crucifixion, Jesus appeared to John and Peter frequently."
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